1 FOIA Request Probes Extent of Government Spying On Climate Protesters
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Citing an investigation that revealed federal agents went undercover to spy on environmental activists, the center for Biological Diversity (CBD) on Thursday filed 9 Freedom of data Act requests looking for information on surveillance of peaceful protests at federal fossil gasoline auctions. As they wrote at the Intercept in July, journalists Lee Fang and Steve Horn obtained emails exhibiting that in May, local regulation enforcement and federal agents monitored and infiltrated a "Keep it in the bottom" protest at a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public sale in Lakewood, Colorado. Now, CBD needs to know not only what happened on the Lakewood protest, but whether similar surveillance strategies have been pursued at different fossil gas public sale protests. In flip, Thursday's filings (pdf) apply to all federal fossil gas auctions performed by BLM and BOEM since August 2015, together with 14 fossil gas auctions that confronted public "Keep it in the bottom" protests. Taylor McKinnon of CBD.

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